The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1887-04-28

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Rifles, Fayetteville Light Infantry Max!
ton Rifles, Forsyth Rifles, High Point
Guardsyy Gfranvi11e Guards, MonroeiLight
Infantry and Hornets Nest Rifles, have
entered, for. the national drill, which be-
gins in Washington on the. 23d. proAimo,
rELovers of. fine stock -willhecon hand
in large number in. Raleigh on.the 18th of
May to see the splendid display, Of blooded
Jerseys. It will be the finest show Of
Jerseys ever seen in the State, and the
sales on that day vii Will &c an attractive and
an important feature For INFORMATION,
address T. H. Briggs, Raleigh, N. c.
From all sections of, our State, comes
the cheering assurance that the outlook
for good crops and b~etter-tihes for the
farmers is more encouraging than it has
been for years. L~ess-debt, less CONNER
icial fertilizers, fewer liens Aan&mortgages,
more grass, more corn, more meat, more
wheat9 means more independence and
better living for the farmer andhis family.
be4" The Farmers Annual Picnic" This
should be a fixed institution i'm every club;
and every neighborhood in the State. Let
it be understood that once every year, the
farmers, with their wives, daughters and
sons, will come together, talk together,
eat together, play together, sing together
and spend the day in social pleasure. Let
it be a happy holiday to which old and
young will ~anxiously look forward.
Our Washington reporters, Messrs.
Louis Dagger & Co., mechanical experts
and solicitors of patents, write us that on
the 10Th inst. twenty-nine patents were
granted to citizents of the Southern States,
and among them the following in our
State: Thomas Thompson, Edenton, N.
c., fish trap; D. J. Scott, R%idgeway, N.
c., pocket protector, and J. S.. Rathbone,
Asheville, N. c., tag and tag-fastener:
1.-THE labor question and the churches
was one of the subjects discussed by the
Baptist Conference in Tarboro last week.
Never, perhaps; in all history, has any
one question SO permeated and engaged
the mind of the world. We believe the,
people of this country are rapidly ap-
preaching a crisis, which will be the
severest test of the strength and stability
of our institutions that has ever peer ap-
pied to them: .{eNr IT 49,. !.
Extensive PREPARATIONS are being
made. for the Farmers Institute to be
held at High Point on Friday>and Satur-
day next. We hope it will be largely at
tended, and that the. necessity for more
thought and more genuine FRAMEWORK I'M
all matters relating to the farmer, will be-
demonstrated. We, learn from the last
issue of that most excellent journal The
Farm and Home, that the Legislature of
Wisconsin appropriated, at its last session,
$4,000 fort the benefit Of the Farmers
Institute, and that wherever held in that
State, it requires the largest halls to ac-
every county in our: State. t.. F.
Will the N. C. State Agricultural So
ciety endeavor to get President Cleve-
land to visit our Fair on his trip to the
Piedmont Fair at Atlanta in October?
Our State Fair will open on the 18th Of
that month, and the Piedmont Fair will
be held during the first two weeks of that
month. Let our executive committee
take the matter in hand and secure his
presence for at-lsast'onedsy-on-his return
froIp4ttanta. IF action be taken in time
believe he will come, and if the So
ciety shall be able to announce positively
that he will be.with us, it will bring thou
sands of our people to the Fair who would
not otherwise wise cceomne What say you, g 'erss
tlemen-?
THEa DEPARTMENT OF AGR1-
=. CIJI TIIRE